Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

Date: Wednesday 30 September to Friday 2 October
Venue: Magdalen College, Summer Common Room

 

WEDNESDAY, 30 September 


9.00 Welcome & Introduction
Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) & Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) 


9.15 Session 1
Avi Lifschitz (Oxford), Paris – Potsdam – Ferney – London: the incomplete rehabilitation of Emperor Julian

Mónica Bolufer Peruga (European University Institute, Florence), Caracas – London – Istanbul: cosmopolitanism and patriotism in the life and readings of an Enlightened, revolutionary criollo
 


11.15 Session 2
Eun-Jeung Lee (Freie Universität Berlin), Rome – Beijing – Seoul: a knowledge network and its media, 1644–1783

Nicola Miller (University College London), A methodology for intellectual independence: Enlightened strategies for modern knowledge in Guatemala, 1790s–1820s
 


13.30 Session 3
Chenxi Tang (University of California, Berkeley), Europe – the Sinosphere: the Eurasian Enlightenment in two keys

Brian Young (Oxford), An English Enlightenment from Lausanne and Göttingen to St Petersburg and Pennsylvania 
 

THURSDAY, 1 October 


9.15 Session 4
Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin), Oviedo – Polling – Parnassus: alternative routes to an Enlightened ars critica

László Kontler (Central European University), Eger – Vienna – Rome: Catholicism and improvement across borders in the Enlightenment 
(1750s–90s)

11.15 Session 5
Alicia Montoya (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Berlin – Venice – Madrid – Lisbon – Recife: making the Portuguese Jewish Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic

Dmitri Levitin (Oxford), Pierre Bayle: global history as Christian apologetics. Rotterdam – St. Andrews – Paris – Göttingen – Calcutta

14.15 Session 6
Shiru Lim (Leiden), When the nomads met the naturalists: knowing and narrativizing the steppe from the Volga to the Amur

Damiano Bardelli (Oxford), Florence – Châlons – Basel: Enlightenment projects of poor relief

16:15 

Tom Wynn (Oxford), The Voltaire Foundation: an introduction 

 

FRIDAY, 2 October 


9.15 Session 7
Jonas Thorup Thomsen (Oxford) & Olivier Higgins (Oxford), Berlin, Copenhagen and beyond: educational reform, public Enlightenment, and authority

John Robertson (Cambridge), Enlightenment by comparison: Scotland and Naples revisited and continued


Richard Whatmore (St. Andrews), John Pocock’s decentred Enlightenments

12.00 Concluding discussion


Generously supported by the John Fell OUP Fund, University of Oxford, and the Division of International Affairs, Freie Universität Berlin

 

 

 

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